Example sentences of "the second [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is the second voucher .
2 However the second helix will have the opposing hand to the first helix .
3 The DNA-binding domain of CAP consists of residues 135–205 and includes helices D , E and F. But , perhaps because of the irregularity in the second helix of the NMR structure of GH5 , it was concluded that there was no correspondence between helix II of GH5 and helix E of CAP and that there was no helix-turn-helix motif in GH5 .
4 The amino-terminal helix ( 25 residues ) includes residues for the basic region and the first helix of the HLH , whereas the carboxy-terminal helix ( 43 residues ) comprises the second helix of the HLH motif and also the leucine zipper motif .
5 Two of the four changes are within the second helix ( 30 ) .
6 It is intimately linked to the second substage , pastoralism , which , Marx believed , following the accepted view of the time — itself much influenced by Biblical sources — always preceded agriculture .
7 Oakland 's Dave Henderson scored the A's first run with a homer in the second inning and they scored their second on a single by Dave Parker .
8 Toronto had scored on a sacrifice fly and a single in the second inning and on a home run by Ernie Whitt in the fourth inning .
9 Before Katherine had a chance to answer , the second lunch gong sounded followed , seconds later , by the jangle of the hall bell .
10 Now the throttle is carefully advanced to achieve 10,000 eardrum-battering rpm for the generator to cut in , and the process is repeated with the second engine .
11 It is thought one pin may have failed on the El Al flight , causing an engine to tear free of its mountings and hit the second engine as it fell .
12 Pete Bushell is the second Engine Driver , who before joining the railway in 1981 , worked as a British Rail Fireman on Steam Engines at Stafford and then as an Engine Driver at the Granville Pit , Donnington .
13 It seems likely that the ‘ beautyful ones ’ will only emerge when and if the second generation of authoritarian leaders are challenged by the growth of countervailing forces to that of the state .
14 And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’
15 ‘ We , the second generation of Pininfarina , had given him great joy and pride .
16 Tim has the kind of gut feeling for old furniture that comes from being the second generation in the trade .
17 For her the real issue is the second generation 's right to education , but not any old education .
18 Secondly , the second generation , by its nature , must reject its elders , taking their hard-won social victories for granted .
19 The second generation is a repeat of the first .
20 The second generation of nuclear power stations , heavily promoted by the UKAEA , was based on the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor ( AGR ) .
21 The Belted bull colour-marks his progeny and traces of the belt persist into the second generation : it is a broad white band between the shoulders and hocks , and including the udder in cows .
22 The second generation of the UGIX project aims to build on the experience of constructing such task-oriented interfaces to create generic interfaces capable of communication with any GIS .
23 However , a new query language interface based on SQL is under development for the second generation of UGIX ( Raper and Bundock 1991 ) .
24 The question of democracy has been seen by the LDDC and the second generation of UDCs as an increasingly important issue .
25 The disease is rare in Japan but begins to become more common in the first generation born in the United States , and approximates the rate prevailing in the US by the second generation .
26 The second generation uses a new type of semiconductor laser , made of a mixture of iridium , gallium , arsenic and phosphorus .
27 The appearance of playback and CNC robots since 1977 is said to have begun the second generation of sophisticated units verging on being ‘ intelligent ’ .
28 This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems .
29 The sport , he added , gives an enormous amount of pleasure to a lot of people , ‘ We are now seeing the second generation enjoying our facilities — youngsters whose parents used to ride around our tracks . ’
30 Gradually the old has merged with the new and the grandchildren of the ‘ young couples ’ who moved into the ‘ new ’ houses are now becoming the second generation to attend Keyingham school .
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